The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYThe soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.
ALAN KAYIf you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYTechnology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
ALAN KAYScratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
ALAN KAYPeople who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAYBad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
ALAN KAYPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAYScience requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
ALAN KAYLisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.
ALAN KAYI fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
ALAN KAYHaving an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
ALAN KAYYazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
ALAN KAYI don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
ALAN KAYChange is easy, except for the changed part.
ALAN KAYI think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
ALAN KAYSome people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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